Councillors have approved plans to revamp the area around Leicester’s Abbey Pumping station - and demolish a Second World War building.

Leicester City Council’s planning committee has voted to allow a revamp of the confines of the historic attraction.

The matter has however proved contentious because campaigners have being trying to keep the bulldozers away from a small brick building - a former decontamination unit built as part of the city’s civil defences to combat the threat of a Nazi poison gas attack.